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What makes cinema popcorn so good compared to microwave popcorn?

WHAT MAKES CINEMA POPCORN taste so good ? i dont get it microwave popcorn doesnt taste the same whats missing ???

Public Comments

1. Movie popcorn is completely saturated with butter.
2. With the best will in the world, microwave popcorn is always burnt at the bottom with a few unpopped corns lurking. Cinema popcorn doesn't suffer this disaster
3. Well for me it is the butter. Try Orville Redenbacher's movie theater butter it comes pretty close.
4. The pound of butter you let them drizzle on it!
5. Trans-fat ... that "glop" (coconut or palm oil articificlly flavored). It is soo good, but so bad for you. Also, super-fine salt. Regular table salt doesn't coat the popcorn corn the way super-fine salt does. Fortunately you can buy super-fine salt (often called popcorn salt) at the supermarket near the peanuts and bagged corn kernels
6. its not drowned in butter
7. It is the atmosphere of being at the cinema. They actually taste just as bad.
8. I used to work at a drive-in theatre, and there was nothing better than the little corns getting popped to perfection in the machine. And after filling up the popcorn bags, pouring drizzling hot, melted butter in the bag feeling the warmth trickle down to the bottom. Getting hungry! So am I. I also think it's the theater experience which makes it also good.
9. Cos it costs so much more, should taste better!
10. Its the way they do it its fresh, they add the flavourings after the popcorn is popped instead of to the kernels. When you buy pre flavoured popcorn the kernels have been laying in the flavourings and it destroys them instead of making the flavour better like you would expect. Try buying some kernels from your local grocery store they are quite cheap, Put them in a dry pan over a high heat and cover with a plate when the popping stops its ready transfer from pan to a large bowl and add whatever flavouring you use and mix well. This is what i do and the taste is always better than the bought popcorn, and just as good as the cinema. hope this helps :)
11. Its absolutely soaked in butter, and as its alraedy pufffed up is absorbing it for as long as it sits unbought, same thing with sugar syrup if its the sweet variety.
12. The pound of butter you are eating with it.
13. Depends on the cinema. Odeon salted popcorn is awful, but microwave stuff is really nice.